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Are you a book reader?
asop
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I guess I've been a member here for almost 20 years. Before I got involved with this bunch I read books. I haven't picked a book up in these past 20 years!! Don't really know what that means but just had to get it out there🙄
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When I go to the library I always checkout 4 books. I go to the library every 12 to 14 days.
I sit at the kitchen table reading and drinking coffee every morning for 45 minutes to an hour to get my day off to a good start!! Yes, I'm a book reader!!
I have been a voracious reader my entire life, both fiction and non-fiction. I remember reading the annals of Kon Tiki when I was probably 10 or 12 and realized that adventures didn't just dwell in the fiction section of the library. Like @dreher I go to the library every couple of weeks and get at least 4 books. When I got the Kindle tablet that I am typing this on, I figured it would take the place of those actual books. Not a chance - I find reading on the tablet nowhere near as rewarding or enjoyable. Bob
Yes, sometime to my detriment. If I get involved in a good book I will forget about everything else and read for hours or stay up way after my bedtime.
I'll read a phone book if there's nothing else.
I still do, but less since I stopped writing, oddly enough. I suppose it was the joy of discovering how other writers used language compared to my feeble efforts. That joy remains but it is more...I don't know...remote now.
No writer has the consummate skill of Patrick O'Brian. I have read his 20-book series "Master and Commander" a dozen times and still revel in it. Craig Johnson's "Longmire" series is close, though.
I assure you, Sir, that your efforts are a far cry from feeble! Once I started reading Baggy Zero Four I couldn't put it down. I literally read the whole thing in one sitting minus a couple bathroom and refreshment breaks.
Every day.
People have accused me of reading things.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
i read something every day .I buy books by the sack-full at thrift stores and yard sales .there are always 3 or 4 downloaded on my phone thru the Libby library app.
I'm a very avid reader.
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
I read a book. Don
I always have a book with me. Whenever I'm waiting, I read. Or when I'm done with whatever is happening. My family knows by now it's nothing personal when I get out the book.
With pitchers?
I used to read books all the time, then the internet came along. And, the more time I have spent online, the shorter my attention span has gotten.
According to my kindle I average 60 books a year
I'm the weird guy going through the discount book bin at the grocery store after I bought my grocery. They put the bin past the check out. Be nice they put it somewhere in the store so my ice cream don't start melting while I'm rooting through the bin.
I also buy the hard back for larger print than the paperback and better spacing in the real books.
My corner Good Will pretty much done away with books so that is how I stumbled into the "Friends Of The Library" book shop. I guess they sell off books that are donated (read dumped) at the public library since the Good Will don't seem to have "space" for them.
So what books don't you take in the crapper? Me any books that might end up on the dining room table like cook books.
My grandmother taught school in a one room schoolhouse shortly after the turn of the twentieth century. When I was around 7 or 8 years old she took me to the hometown public library (my 1st trip there). Before that, she would read to all of us kids from a wide assortment of books like Treasure Island, Moby Dick, and a slew of others that perked my interest to read on my own.
At Christmas, she would give me a book. The content fit my age and reading level. I started with books like "Babar the Elephant" and "The Biggest Bear" which I still have copies of. She was a great lady and I cannot thank her enough for introducing me to a world of true wonder!
go to the library weekly, and read as I sit in the doctors office, or while waiting to pick up the grandkids, I don't have a cell phone so I don't sit and play on it to pass time, I read instead, 3-4 books a week......... local library ordered rocky's books and I read them both, all the louie lamour books and a lot of westerns, now I am on the clive cussler series. Knowing I have eye surgery coming, corneal transplants, I am reading as much as possible, not sure I will be able to if the surgeon slips up later on.....
I'm reading In Deadly Combat, a first person account of the invasion of Russia in 1941, written by a German soldier. Brutal!
I like to read.
I am a voracious reader. I pay monthly for Kindle Unlimited. Read as many free books as I can consume in a month. Saves me $100's each month. That's how much I read.
Thanks, Neo.
When I was young I would sit and grab a World Book Encyclopedia off the shelf and start reading.
It's carried over
I go to the Library all the time. and attend the Book sales too. I usually walk out with 10-15 or so book from the sale. , I will take about the same number back for the next sale.
I have an app call My Library, so I don't buy the same book twice (I've done that) ! But I will reread books all the time.
I need More Book Shelf s..
But I do Enjoy My Kindle for reading too, when traveling.
No, pictures. Don
I like Louis Lamour and Dean Koontz, to name a couple of good writers. I will read almost any book that catches my interest, whether sci fi, western or mystery. Colt Vaughn and Stan Ringley do good work if you like the sword and sorcery genre.
Pop ups???
I loved all the books that Whiteclouder wrote , and have several autographed copies. I got to get Rocky's book, Baggy Zero Four. I forgot all about it. I like adventure novels and True crime. I also have a book signed by the Tuskegee airmen , that I purchased at a meet and greet in Washington DC, at the air and space museum. Talk about being taken back by meeting some real heros!!!!!!!!!!! Wow, those guys were so humble and soft spoken.
Order both, Oakie. You'll save on shipping and you're going to want the second one, for sure. (BTW, I regret the prices my publisher now charges for these. Inflation, paper... you know. But that's still the cheapest source.)
https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rraab
One of the greatest gifts my blue collar parents gave me and my siblings was the love of reading. They bought a new ranch house back in 1960, with a fancy bathroom with linen shelves. My mother loved it until my father put a whole set of encyclopedia that he got one a month from the A&P, on the shelves. I learned a lot while on the can.
My mother made him move the books when company came over.............